Adding Information to the System Environment Toolbar

In TYPO3 CMS nearly every part is extendable, that’s one of my favorite things about it. While TYPO3 CMS core offers all of the essentials you need for content management, by adding extensions you can customize the CMS to your niche requirements. There are hundreds of solutions shared in the TER (TYPO3 Extension Repository) that’s a great place to start. Can’t find what you need? Time to build your own. When you have the right PHP skills to create extensions, you can create anything you want.

In this video, I’ll show you how you can extend the system information toolbar with custom information. The system information toolbar shows you details such as the version of TYPO3 that installation is running. What if you wanted to also add more details to help others, such as the current Git version being used?

To get the most out of this tutorial, you would need to know the basics of building TYPO3 extensions to follow along. This tutorial explains how to use the system information toolbar API.

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About the Author

Susanne Moog

Senior-ita Developer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Susanne has been part of the TYPO3 project for the last ten years. Originally she studied media economics, but quickly realized that programming was more than just a hobby and started working in the IT area.

She works at TYPO3 GmbH and team neusta, mainly as a scrum master and developer. In her free time she loves reading, dancing, learning C# and doing code katas.